The Association of Public Television Stations (APTS) and the American Library Association (ALA) will work together to launch a grassroots outreach effort to educate the public about the digital television transition.

According to the ALA, libraries may work with local public TV stations to demonstrate DTV converter boxes. This grassroots outreach will complement public television’s ongoing consumer education campaign efforts, which include using on-air segments, stations’ printed program guides, Web sites and special mailings.

The FCC chairman reiterated to two key members of the House that Congress has given the National Telecommunications and Information Administration the primary responsibility for educating the public that analog sets won’t work after the February 2009 transition.

SpectraRep is working with the Association for Public Television Stations (APTS) to educate APTS station members, and government, business and education leaders about using DTV transmissions to help securely distribute video and data. SpectraRep will advise APTS on how public television can meet public safety, homela

The Public Broadcasting Service, headquartered in Arlington, Va., began feeding HD special content to its member stations back in 1998 on an experimental basis, long before most noncommercial stations had transitioned their analog shops to digital. Now almost a decade later, HD Notebook talked with PBS spokeswoman Jan McNamara and Association of Public Television Stations (APTS) spokeswoman Tania Panczyk-Collins about PTV’s transition.